INDIVIDUAL assessments

Individual Assessments and Profiling

Our individual assessment tools include;

1. MBTI (Myers Briggs Type Indicator)

2. Profile Plus behavioural profiling

3. DiSC personal behaviour profile

4. On The Job Assessment

MBTI - Myers Briggs Type Indicator

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is a personality inventory designed to make Carl Jung's theory of psychological types practical and useful in people's lives. It deals with what are considered natural personal preferences, not pathologies.

MBTI has been used effectively with individuals, groups and organisations throughout the world. There are a wide range of applications, including careers, communication, conflict resolution, counselling, management and leadership, relationships, teaching and learning, teamwork, personal and spiritual development etc.

There are various MBTI Forms. They all present a series of forced-choice questions, in phrase and word pair format. Each question, or item, relates to a preference one of 4 sets of psychological opposites:

Extraversion-Introversion
Sensing-Intuition
Thinking-Feeling
Judgement-Perception

The 4 scales on the MBTI represent these opposites. They do not claim to say everything about these opposites.

The MBTI is a sorting mechanism for psychological preferences, not a measure of skills or abilities. Scores on the MBTI are like votes for one side or another, where each option is considered good, or valuable. People completing the MBTI can leave out questions where they like neither or all of the options presented. Isabel Myers didn't want you to give false data about preferences.

Clarity of preference on a scale relates to a level of confidence that the result is correct for the person completing it. Scores are therefore not related to any notion of development, or lack of development.

Profile Plus

Profile Plus is an accurate, highly validated behavioural Profile that has been instrumental in significantly improving the quality of recruiting in many Australian and New Zealand organisations.

Profile Plus has been specifically developed, in Australia, by business people for use in business as a practical addition to reliable personnel selection as well as for objective performance reviews.

Profile Plus comes from 2 separate Psychometric Theories. One dating back to research begun by William Marsden and Prescott Leckey of Columbia University in the 1930’s, the other using the “folk concept” method pioneered by Gough with the California Psychological Inventory in 1960, Golberg and Hase 1967, and Megargee 1977.

Profile Plus is outstanding as a user friendly, easy to administer personal profiling tool and takes the subject around only 15 minutes to complete. It is inexpensive, and was designed to act as both an addition to normal hiring practices and also for internal performance reviews to highlight future job direction and/or training needs. It adds an accurate, objective look at how compatible a subject’s behavioural traits are with the commercial requirements of their present or proposed position

DiSC

The DiSC personal behaviour profile allows us to understand the dimensions of our behaviour preferences and those of others we work with. By understanding our strengths and weaknesses, we can adapt our communication and actions to become more effective in relationship situations with colleagues, peers and customers. The DiSC Profile is a simple to use and simple to apply learning instrument that has wide application in a variety of work and personal situations.

The DiSC program is designed to improve the ability of participants to understand themselves and others and to bring about an improvement in their ability to relate to others and improve personal effectiveness and performance.

Benefits of DiSC:

Understand self (why we behave the way we do)
Understand others (why they behave the way they do)
Improved communication
Improved behaviour flexibility
Improved results through and with others
Improved WIN : WIN potential

Outline of DiSC training:

Understand why we are attracted to some, and not all people
Complete and analyse own DiSC profile
Understand basis of DiSC and its history
Understand the importance of behaviour flexibility in bringing about improved working relationships (internal and external)
Learn the 4 DiSC Styles and their characteristics
Develop and apply skills in using the knowledge gained in work situations.

Who should attend?

All people who have to work together, managers and team leaders in improving the team environment and team relationships, front line staff in customer contact – sales and customer service.

What’s next?

Advanced DiSC applications workshops :

Customer Service
Selling situations
Team building
Leading others and coaching skills

On The Job Assessment

The On-the-Job assessment is a tailored assessment that identifies the critical capabilities required and measures the current skill level against the organisational and best practice benchmark.

This is not a performance review and is aimed solely at looking at what areas of the role require development to assist the individual to be successful.

There are five competency levels that can apply to each step of the assessment process. The key here is that observations are made on HOW the individual actually demonstrate the competency whilst performing their normal duties.

The assessment is conducted prior to skill development training to determine the baseline and again mid program, which clearly identifies areas of improvement and competencies that require further focus.

On completion of the learning development program a final On-the-Job Assessment is conducted with the progress made contributing to the evaluation of ROI and potential career progression.